okay in this video I'm just going to take a look at how is personal injuries
compensation calculators in Ireland what are the factors which go into the award
of compensation or the assessments you will see from time to time what appear
to be very large words for what appear to be relatively inconsequential
injuries what you really do need to know all of the details before you should
make any reasonable rational judgment so just we have a look at that anyway and
how the amount of personal injury compensation is alive that partially you
must understand that in Ireland as a situation with the setting up by the
government a number of years ago of the personal injuries assessment board it's
commonly known as the English board virtually all personal injury claims in
Ireland most fortunately be submitted to the injuries board the exception of one
of the exceptions would be a medical negligence claim the injuries boredom is
tasked with tigers an assessment this assessment is really monetary song that
they will arrive us in calculus to compensate the injured party for the
injuries the assessment then we'll be broke down broken down into two broad
categories one is general damages and wounded special damages the general
damages are based on the book of quantum which is available on the injuries Board
website the general damages are essentially in a compensating you for
the pain and suffering of the injury that you suffered the other broad
category of damages will be special damages these would be out of pocket
expenses for example the medical report and lots of earnings loss of wages any
medicine pills physiotherapy doctors fees doctor's visits hospital bills and
so on the critical thing in the injuries board arriving at the assessment amount
is essentially the medical report in the first instance the person who's making
the same claimant would submit a medical report
with their application however the injuries board and may ascend the person
the claimant to one of their own doctors in order to have an assessment try it
out before they finally issue what they consider to be a fair compensation for
the injuries if the injuries board assessment is not accepted by either the
claimant or the respondent well then legal proceedings will have to follow
and the injured board will issue a letter of authorization which allows you
to bring it legal proceedings in the court this is started by way of a person
in jury summons compensation then in a negligence case and a personal injury
claim is essentially a negligence case because the claimant is claiming that
they have suffered an injury due to the negligence of the respondent the
compensation in such cases is aiming to restore the plaintiff to the position
they would have been in had the negligence or tort or severe on not been
committed this is not always possible however for example the loss column can
never be reversed and clearly a court in awarding damages is going to have to do
what they can in terms of a monetary sum because nobody can you know reverse the
locks William compensation by the court and what general damages as I said is to
compensate for pain and suffering loss of immunity and loss of expectation of
life loss of quality of life the pain and suffering can include physical and
psychiatric or psychological and injury or pain and can also take account of the
loss of quality of life it can also take account of past and future suffering
special damages then just like with the injuries board assessment these are out
of pocket expenses lots of earnings etc so you're going to have a figure
basically for past loss of earnings and future loss of earnings depending on the
injury if you injuries not that serious then path loss of earnings made
easy enough to quantify and ascertain the claimant may have made a full
recovery they are back at work and there's no future loss of earnings
expect us however if the injury much more serious and attacks the future loss
of earnings well that must be taken to buy into account by the court and you
may need the claimant minitab actuary to prepare a report for future loss of
earnings my name is Terra sorry I'm a solicitor then filled personal injuries
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